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Baseball’s best players gather in Minneapolis this week to participate in the All-Star Game. If you’re a fan or even a “weekend athlete,” you can admire these players for their abilities, even if you — like the vast majority of humanity — can’t hope to duplicate them. But if you’re an investor, you may be able to learn some practical lessons from the All-Stars.

So let’s look at a few common All-Star traits to see how they might apply to investors:

Time travel. This concept is generally associated with the entertainment industry. Maybe some in the scientific world think it possible.

Have you ever wondered what it would be like to travel back in time or maybe the future? This upcoming Christmas season some will see a legendary movie “A Christmas Carol” and its character Ebenezer Scrooge with reminders of the past and future. Many of us “traveled” in our minds about the past on Thanksgiving. Truly, we think of the past and future often. We travel at least when thinking.

Over time, the value of stocks can go up and down. Bond prices fluctuate with interest rates, as do other types of fixed-income securities such as certificates of deposit and investments in money-market accounts. Predicting which investment vehicles are likely to perform better than others at any given point time is next to impossible. So how do you choose investments for your portfolio?

The Louisiana Master Gardener program is a service and educational activity designed to recruit and train volunteers to help meet the needs of home gardeners while providing an enjoyable and worthwhile experience for volunteers.